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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Once upon a time, on the day before Thanksgiving, Papa Bear
and Mama Bunny were getting ready to go out and run a couple of errands and
pick up some things. While Mama Bunny
was finishing up getting ready, Papa Bear thought he would run down to city
hall and pay the water bill, which absolutely had to be paid that day to avoid
getting the water cut off.

So Papa Bear saunters out to their 20 plus year old trusted
chariot, Cecil. Well Papa Bear gets in,
puts his key in the ignition, cranks it - but no go! Papa Bear knows what the problem is, for it
has happened before. Fair Cecil needs a
new battery. So back in the house goes
Papa Bear.

Now Mama Bunny, who was getting ready, knows something is
amiss when she hears Papa Bear come back in the house so quickly. She goes into the office, where she finds
Papa Bear on the phone with the local Napa Auto Parts store. He informs her of the calamity, and she
stands there and waits to see what she can do to help.

Well, the Napa people
tell Papa Bear that it will be an hour or two before they can get there with a
new battery for Cecil. For you see,
Cecil was the only chariot that Papa Bear and Mama Bunny had to drive. And there really wasn’t anyone else they
could call.

Well after Papa Bear got off the phone with Napa, Mama Bunny
settled in at her desk and got on the phone, making inquiries about help for
their battery problem. She wanted to
give poor Papa Bear a chance to settle down, because the whole thing had upset
him a good bit; and Papa Bear had been very sick last year (2011).

So Mama Bunny called some other places, and most said they
just couldn’t help, or she got no answer.
A couple of places said they could help, but their prices were much
higher than what the nice Napa people had quoted. So Papa Bear and Mama Bunny settled in to
wait for the Napa man to show up.

Well, when it got about time for the Napa man to show up,
Papa Bear went outside to wait on the porch steps for him. Fortunately it was a nice sunny day. But Papa Bear got to feeling antsy about their
coming, so Mama Bunny called and checked, and was assured that they would soon be
there. But it was then that Papa Bear
discovered a new problem. Cecil didn't want to open his hood mouth so they would be able to put the new battery in
when the Napa man came.

Papa Bear tried and tried to get Cecil to open his hood
mouth, to no avail. Mama Bunny got out
the WD40 to use to try to persuade Cecil with, and she checked his owner’s
manual, and searched for the shop manual (which she couldn't find). She too found a place to spray WD40, through
Cecil’s front grill, in an attempt to persuade him to open up.

While all this was going on, the Napa man showed up and
joined in the efforts to try to persuade Cecil to open his hood mouth. Finally Mr. Napa man was able to persuade
Cecil to open up for them. Well I must
say, Papa Bear and Mama Bunny made sure to thoroughly grease Cecil’s hood
opening mechanism with the WD40 to make sure this wouldn’t happen again.

With the hood open, the nice Napa man proceeded to put in
the brand new Napa Legend battery he had brought for Cecil. When the Napa man had the battery all in and
hooked up, Mama Bunny cranked Cecil up, and he purred like usual. Both Papa Bear and Mama Bunny were both very
relieved. Papa Bear paid the nice Napa
man, and they both thanked him very much for all his help.

Then Papa Bear was able to go pay the bill, and he and
Mama Bunny were able to go do their errands.
One of their errands included going shopping at Walmart on the evening
of the day before Thanksgiving, but that’s another story entirely!

You see, dear reader, fair Cecil had a habit of just
suddenly turning up with a dead battery.
One time in particular, Papa Bear and Mama Bunny were driving down
Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, when Cecil’s battery decided to up and
die. So there they were, stranded there
in the turning lane in the middle of Frederica Street; when low and behold,
what should come up behind them, but none other than the WBKR van with a big
bear on it. The nice WBKR men helped
Papa Bear and Mama Bunny get Cecil across Frederica and into a parking
lot.

So friends, Papa Bear and Mama Bunny will always have a soft
spot in their hearts for WBKR and Napa Auto Parts, for both have came to their
rescue.

And if you should be wondering why Papa Bear and Mama Bunny didn't call on their kids to come help them, then perhaps this photo will show
why.

For Papa Bear and Mama Bunny’s kids are cute and fuzzy, and
great for hugs and smiles, but they suck at changing car batteries. Their cute, fuzzy bodies just aren't made for such
tasks.